Trauma Affects Brains

In “Trauma affects brains of boys and girls in opposite ways” by Stanford University, the University of Stanford states that brain scans of teenagers with post-traumatic stress disorder show a structural differences between boy and girls. The part of the brain that shows the structural difference is called insula, the insula is the part of the brain that “detects cues from the body and processes emotions and empathy and helps to integrate feeling, actions, and several other brain functions” (Stanford 1). Victor Carrion a Stanford professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences has stated that insula has a huge role in the progress of post-traumatic stress disorder, and the importance of telling the differences of the insula between the boys